Two former radio producers brainstorm a Chicago novel

There has not been a book published — or likely to be published in the future — that contains jacket quotes from the pair of aging, pretty good golfers named Rick Kogan and William L. Petersen. But there we are, myself and the great stage actor and television (“CSI”) star, offering praise for the novel “The Living Wills.”

I say, in part, "Rollicking and real on so many levels."

Billy says, in part, "A hell of an old-fashioned read."

The book is the collaborative effort between Rick Kaempfer and Brendan Sullivan. I have known them both for a long time, and Petersen is related by marriage to Sullivan.

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